How to create a delay in record creation

Mi4 · ‎04-12-2020

Hello,

I created a business rule to allow approvers to see the attachments added to the application in the portal.(Global)

Weirdly, however, we realized that we needed to enforce this business rule before an authorization record would occur.

System log:

My boss told me to use 'gs.sleep' as a way to make this delay.(Global)

Refer to:

<https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=8cdc8329db9cdbc01dcaf3231f96...>

However, it doesn't work well.

Can you point out what is wrong?

Regards,

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎04-12-2020

Hi,

gs.sleep() is not allowed in scoped app; you can use this to use some delay

ms -> milliseconds

function sleep(ms) {
  var endSleep = new GlideDuration().getNumericValue() + ms;
  while ( new GlideDuration().getNumericValue() < endSleep) {
   //wait 
  }

  return;
}

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Thanks
Ankur

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Ankur
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SaschaWildgrube · ‎02-22-2022

Yet another version of the Sleep function that works in scoped apps:

https://github.com/saschawildgrube/servicenow-devtools/blob/master/update/sys_script_include_88eb276...

The DevTools app contains a truckload of reusable scripts and
features to support your app development.

Fork at will!